Life in the Land of Dinosaurs

Went for a 5-mile-or-so hike at Sweetwater Wetlands with GregL yesterday (on Fridays when we're both free, we usually pick out a wild spot to hike).

Sweetwater Wetlands is not particularly wild as far as the hiking conditions. Well-maintained gravel trails and boardwalks keep your feet out of the actual swamp. Which is probably a good thing since it's full of dinosaurs. Quite a few -- 10 to 20 -- were mere feet from the trail, sunning themselves on the banks. Nothing to keep them from going after people if they were so inclined, but they just generally aren't. The biggest we saw, I estimated 8+ feet long, was across one of the water areas.

From one of the boardwalks, we saw a mother alligator with her young, down in the swamp. Kind of hard to see the young'uns in this photo. Look to the front right of the mother's nose.

Applicable Aphorisms #45

"Let your speech be better than silence." (Ancient Egyptian Wisdom, Ptahhotep)

True, false, good, bad, useful, not so useful, etc.? Discuss.

My thoughts:

Seems reasonable. And like a more polite way of telling a fool to STFU.

Wordle 1974 Hint

 Hint: Britishism -- in the US we're more likely to say "horny."

Not Enough? Get the first letter of today's Wordle below.

New to Wordle? You can play it at the New York Times, and here are some thoughts on how I go about solving each day's puzzle.

First Letter: R